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Samedaydoctor Canary Wharf samedaydoctor Canary Wharf is a private GP practice for all your medical needs. Offering a wealth of services 6 days a week.

Virtual & In Person Consultations , Vits & Drips , BabyJabs. Walk in/Same day Appointments
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Specialist Consultant referrals
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Flu Vaccines
Travel Vaccines
Emergency contraception/Contraception, fertility blood tests and referrals
Mole screening
Medicals
DNA testing
Drug and alcohol screening

Special Interests:
Children's Health
Women's Health/Fertility/Contraception
Men's Health
Sexual Health
Skin and mole screening
Elderly care
Counselling and stress management

01/10/2026

Myths we hear constantly. Sorted.

27/09/2026

You’ve rung at eight. You’ve been in the queue twenty minutes. And now, before you’ve described a single symptom, you’re being asked to justify the call.

Is it urgent. Is it an emergency. Could it wait.

Most people cave at that point. They say it’s probably nothing, they take the appointment in three weeks, and they put the phone down feeling faintly embarrassed for having rung at all.

None of this is the fault of whoever’s on the other end. They’re following a process designed to ration something there isn’t enough of, and they’re getting it in the neck all day for something they didn’t build.

But it does train people badly. It teaches you that you need a good enough reason before you’re allowed to ask, and once that’s learned it doesn’t go away. It’s why people sit on things for months, and it’s why a lot of people now type their symptoms into a chatbot instead.

You shouldn’t have to argue your way into being seen.

26/09/2026

When your GP refers you for routine specialist care in England, you have a legal right to choose which hospital or clinic you go to. Not a preference someone might accommodate. A right.

The GP Patient Survey this year found only 31% of people referred were actually offered a choice, and only 34% knew they had one.

So most people get given a hospital and assume that’s the arrangement. It isn’t. You can ask what else is available, ask about waiting times elsewhere, ask to go somewhere more convenient or somewhere that specialises in your condition. Waiting lists for the same procedure vary a lot between hospitals, and you can compare them yourself on the My Planned Care site before you decide.

It doesn’t apply to everything. Emergency and urgent care, the two week suspected cancer pathway, maternity and some mental health services all work differently, because there speed matters more than choice.

But for routine referrals, which is most of them, the practical version is this. When your GP says they’re referring you, ask what the options are. If nobody raises it, you’re allowed to.

None of this needs a private GP. It’s just something you’re entitled to that most people never get told.

22/09/2026

Reference ranges are built from populations, not from you.

Which means “in range” tells you that your result sits inside what’s typical for a large group of people. It doesn’t tell you whether it’s typical for you. Someone whose kidney function has sat comfortably at one end of normal for a decade and has quietly drifted towards the other end is still, technically, normal. Nobody flags it. Nothing gets said.

The direction of travel is often the more interesting number, and you only see it if someone is looking at this year’s result next to the last five.

This is the part that gets lost when you see a different doctor every time. They’re reading one set of numbers in isolation, because that’s all they have. A gradual shift over years doesn’t look like anything on a single page.

It cuts the other way too. Plenty of people get a result marked slightly out of range and spend a fortnight worrying about something that has always been their normal and means nothing at all.

So “everything came back fine” isn’t really the end of the conversation. It’s roughly where it should start.

16/09/2026

The scan takes twenty minutes. The waiting beforehand usually takes months.

Almost nobody comes in when something first niggles. They come in when it starts affecting sleep, or work, or the thing they used to do at weekends. By then they’ve usually been managing it quietly for a season, adjusting how they move, taking something for it, telling themselves it’s settling.

Sometimes waiting is genuinely fine and nothing is lost. Plenty of things do settle on their own.

But the cost of waiting isn’t always visible while you’re doing it. Some things get harder to treat. Some things get missed. And the longer you’ve told yourself it’s nothing, the harder it gets to walk in and say otherwise.

If you’ve been giving it another couple of weeks since roughly the summer, that’s your answer.

13/09/2026

Most people start assuming there’s a finish line. Do a few months, get where you’re going, stop.

That isn’t usually how it works, and it’s worth knowing before you begin rather than after.

Weight loss medication works largely by changing appetite signalling. It quietens the constant background negotiation about food. When it comes off, that signalling goes back to doing what it did before, which for a lot of people means the appetite and the cravings return. Not because anyone lacked willpower. Because the thing that was suppressing them has gone.

That’s why some people move onto a lower maintenance dose rather than stopping entirely. Obesity behaves like a chronic condition, and chronic conditions tend to need ongoing management rather than a course of treatment.

Not everyone needs that. Some people come off and hold steady, particularly where the other pieces have shifted alongside it. But it’s a genuine possibility and you should hear it from a doctor at the start, not discover it six months in when the cravings return and nobody warned you.

Anything prescription-only needs a proper consultation first, including whether it’s appropriate for you at all.

If you’re considering it, the question to ask isn’t just how it works. It’s what happens when you stop.

10/09/2026

Most people picture allergy testing as the grid of scratches down your forearm, then twenty minutes waiting to see what comes up.

This isn’t that. It’s one blood sample from the vein, tested against 295 allergen reagents. Pollens, dust mites, moulds, animals, insect venoms, foods, latex. Results back in two days.

The useful part isn’t just the number. Older tests use whole extracts, so a positive tells you that you reacted to something in, say, peanut, without telling you what. This one tests individual molecular components, which is what lets you tell a genuine allergy apart from a cross-reaction to a protein shared across a whole family of plants. That distinction changes what you actually have to avoid.

Worth being straight about the limits. It measures IgE, which means it picks up the immediate, classic allergic reactions. It doesn’t test intolerances, it doesn’t test coeliac, and it won’t explain most delayed reactions to food.

And a positive result on its own isn’t a diagnosis. Plenty of people show sensitisation to things they eat happily every week. What the result does is give you and your doctor something specific to work with, instead of guessing.

If you’ve been cutting things out of your diet without ever knowing why, this is how you find out properly.

01/09/2026

The flu programme opens today, but probably not for you.

From 1 September it’s pregnant women and children, plus young people aged 17 and over in SEN schools who are in a clinical risk group. Everyone else in the eligible groups starts from 1 October. That includes people 65 and over, adults with certain long-term conditions, care home residents, carers, people living with someone immunocompromised, and frontline health and social care staff.

Two dates, and most people assume there’s only one.

The reason for the gap is the interesting part.

Protection from the flu vaccine wanes over the season in adults, and flu usually peaks in December and January. So JCVI advises vaccinating adults closer to when it’s actually circulating. Going early doesn’t get you ahead, it just means you’re further into the decline by the time it matters.

Children are different. Protection lasts longer in them, and vaccinating them earlier reduces how much flu spreads to everyone else.

If you’re 18 or over you can already book in the NHS App for an October appointment, so it’s worth doing that now rather than remembering in November.

And if you’re not on either list, that’s worth knowing too. Plenty of healthy working-age adults aren’t covered by the NHS programme at all.

29/08/2026

Nobody books an appointment for this part.

A result that should have come back last week hasn’t. So you phone. You get put on hold, you get the wrong department, you phone again. Eventually someone finds it.

The patient hears from us that afternoon. What they don’t hear is that it took three calls, because that isn’t their problem to carry.

This is most of what running your own practice actually looks like. Not the consultation, the chasing afterwards. Making sure the thing you sent someone for doesn’t quietly disappear into a system nobody’s watching.

If we send you for something, we follow it.

Around 1 in 7 UK adults have now used an AI chatbot for a health problem instead of seeing someone. The reason they gave...
26/08/2026

Around 1 in 7 UK adults have now used an AI chatbot for a health problem instead of seeing someone. The reason they gave most often after convenience wasn’t waiting times. It was not being sure they were ill enough to bother a GP.

We understand how that happens. When appointments feel like a competition, you start rationing yourself.

But there’s a line worth drawing. AI is genuinely useful for understanding things. Explaining a result, translating a letter, helping you word the symptom you’ve been struggling to describe, giving you the questions to bring in with you. All of that makes appointments better, and we’d rather you arrived prepared.

What it can’t do is triage. One study found these tools got it wrong on more than half of medical emergencies. Deciding what’s urgent is the part that takes years to learn, and it’s now being done alone at 11pm by people who’ve talked themselves out of asking.

So use it to understand. Don’t use it to decide.

And if you’re weighing up whether you’re ill enough to be seen, that’s the bit we’re here for.

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